Please complete all steps in Prerequisites section. Actions include but not limited to below.

• Clone vscode repository.
• Install Git.
• Install Node.JS.
• Install Yarn.
• Install Python.
• Install C/C++ compiler tool chain.

• Name the folder as vscode-language-pack-[languageID]. See existing languages for reference.

• Reference existing languages for example.
• Use VS Code to edit package.json in your language pack folder.

• run 'gulp vscode-translations-export' to export strings from VSCode source code to .xlf.
• Source .xlf can be found under 'vscode-translations-export' in same level with your vscode local clone.

• Get .xlf localized in the process and tool you choose.
• After loc complete, organize files under 'vscode-translations-import/[languageID]'

• Change directory to local vscode repository
• git checkout master
• git pull
• npm run update-localization-extension {path_to_lang_pack_ext}
• For example: npm run update-localization-extension -- --location ../vscodeloc/localization de

• Change directory to local vscode-loc repository
• npm install -g vsce
• Change directory to vscode-language-pack[languageID]
• vsce package this will produce vsix package in vscode-language-pack[languageID] folder

• Install VS Code Insiders
• Load vsix to test

code --install-extension [name of your extension.vsix]
code --locale [the new locale id, e.g. tr]

• git add i18/vscode-language-pack[languageID]/*
• git commit -m "message/description"
• git push -u origin yourbranchname -vv
• Visit vscode-loc and create pull request against master branch.

• Please create a new GitHub issue

• See how to publish language pack extension in Marketplace topic